Revenue-Recognition Problems in the Communications Equipment Industry 1) In late 2000‚ Lucent announced that revenues would be adjusted downwards by $679m as a result of revenue recognition problems. Yet the firm’s market capitalization plummeted by $24.7bn. Why do you think the market reacted so negatively to Lucent’s announcements of the problems? The large drop in market capitalization is probably due to several factors. Historically‚ Lucent had successfully met analysts’ projections for
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Financial Reporting and Analysis – ACG6175 Date: 5/18/09 Revenue Recognition Problems in the Communications Equipment Industry 1 – In late 2000‚ Lucent announced that revenues would be adjusted downwards by $679 million as a result of revenue recognition problems. Yet the firms market capitalization plummeted by $24.7 billion. Why do you think the market reacted so negatively to Lucent’s announcements of the problems? There is usually a grey zone between aggressive accounting‚ which
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equipment’ registered a substantial decline in its shipment value at a negative CAGR of 6.2% since 2006 The report titled “The US Farm Equipment Industry Outlook to 2017 – Smart Technology Solutions Driving the Demand” provides a comprehensive analysis of the market size of the US Farm Equipment Industry on the basis of total manufacturers shipment and revenue generated from consumption in the US. The report provides a brief overview of agricultural equipment and machinery production in the US covered
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THE MACROECONOMIC UNCERTAINTY IN THE OIL AND GAS EQUIPMENT SERVICE INDUSTRY We explore how the macroeconomic fluctuation can really affect the performance of a company. We analyze the companies of the oil and gas equipment service industry: FMC Technologies‚ NOV‚ and Schlumberger. We use the MUST Analysis in order to discover what were the macroeconomic variables that really affects our companies’ performance‚ the magnitude‚ and the direction of the variables with the performance. The data sources
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Disc Jockey Equipment 1 Disc Jockey Equipment Disc Jockeys or DJs for short play a selection of music that are pre-recorded from different musicians to their audience. In order for DJs to play music‚ DJs would use equipment to playback the music in which the audience would hear from. The types of DJ Equipment used are turntables‚ DJ mixers‚ crossfaders‚ amplifiers‚ speakers‚ Serato live software with Serato Control‚ and Rane hardware‚ eventually this would create
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The History of statistics can be said to start around 1749 although‚ over time‚ there have been changes to the interpretation of the word statistics. In early times‚ the meaning was restricted to information about states. This was later extended to include all collections of information of all types‚ and later still it was extended to include the analysis and interpretation of such data. In modern terms‚ "statistics" means both sets of collected information‚ as in national accounts and temperature
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Recycling Equipment In the case “Recycling Equipment”‚ David Hendricks is a cost accountant for a small‚ closely held chemical manufacturing company. He faces an ethical dilemma. David has two analyses; the first analysis is purchase of the equipment in the lower estimate of cost savings‚ it would increase the company’s net income but it would decrease the return on investment and affects the bonuses for company managers. The second analysis is in the higher estimate of cost savings‚ the recycling
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Business Analytics: Unit 1: Descriptive Statistics and Mathematical Foundations Kaplan University March 23‚ 2014 Descriptive Statistics and Mathematical Foundations Part I: Pie Chart & Bar Graph This information regards T-100 Domestic Market’s boarding information during the previous year for the top seven airlines in the United Sates. According to the data Southwest Airlines boarded 81.1 million; Delta Airlines‚ 79.4 million; American Airlines‚ 72.6 million; United Airlines‚ 56.3 million;
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golf equipment industry? What is the industry like? Even though golf had grown to be a sizable part of the U.S. economy‚ the golf equipment industry was faced with serious troubles in 2008. The convergence of a variety of serious hazards to the industry had caused the retail value of the golf equipment industry to decline from approximately $4 billion in 2000 to about $3 billion in 2003. Golf equipment sales had rebounded to an estimated $3.8 billion in 2007‚ but many threats to the industry continued
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“ Statistics should be interpreted with caution as they can be misleading; they can both lie and tell the truth” Statistics are being used everyday to describe things in working and studying areas to show the productivity of the results they are hoping for. Therefore‚ people observe and notice alternative objects the world around. Throughout this fact‚ similarities and differences are such features that could endanger or turned out as advantages. This is called statistics. Explanations
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